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Friends Arena, Stockholm, Sweden 31st July 2022 (2 Versions)
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Along with the final Berlin performance, the Stockholm performance known as the final performance of “Sixty”. A video set that allows you to witness the whole story is now available.
There are two types of images included in this work. Both are audience shots of “Stockholm performance on July 31, 2022”, but it is a two-disc set with DISC 1 for the first appearance of the superb view one-camera version and DISC 2 for the multi-camera edited version. Let’s introduce each one individually.
“The most amazing thing is the screen shots that are often used.” This is already a nearly perfect professional shot. Normally, if you are in an oblique or horizontal position, the screen will be oblique and difficult to see, but this work is different. It is unknown what the venue layout of the site is, but the photographer is facing the screen and captures the screen straight and clean. Moreover, it looks like a professional shot because it was shot while making fine adjustments so that the frame of the screen did not enter the limit. Did you just happen to be seated right next to me, or did you dare to hold the seat right next to me in order to make this superb screen shot a thing? It is a visual beauty that is too wonderful so far.
Such a screen image alone is wonderful, but the direct shooting of this work is also superb. As mentioned above, it is an angle right next to the stage, but it is a superb view with no obstructions, and Mick, who moves freely on the runway, is captured in the center of the screen. Moreover, what surrounds the runway is a huge sea of spectators. If you zoom in, the image quality is high enough to show off the power of the latest equipment, and if you pull it out, the contrast between “Mick vs the Great Crowd” creates a tremendous spectacle. This also gives us a taste of “extremely rare sights” that ordinary photographers do not even think of.
What’s even more amazing is that they use completely different scenes such as “screen shot/direct zoom/distant spectacle” according to the show. The action of Mick and the entanglement with Keith & Ron are captured with a direct zoom, and at the moment when the audience seats brighten up, they are firmly suppressed with a distant view spectacle. And the highlights of each person, such as each person’s solo, are screen shots at hand. What’s more, he changes his perspective just before such a highlight scene comes, and he waits and doesn’t miss it. The progress of the show is also a camera work of a craftsman who fully grasps what happens with each song. [DISC 2: One of the best masterpieces in the multi-camera series] Following such an experiential one-cam video is the multi-camera edited audience shot that has become a specialty of “Sixty”. This disc is familiar as a gift title, but its quality is one of the best masterpieces in the multi-camera series. From the type, this work is “through recording + switching”, so-called pro shot format. It is a type that changes the angle even within one song. However, if you take a closer look, you will find that there is actually not much switching. It is a feeling that shows the finest point of view for a long time.
However, the level of the superb point of view is extremely high. Especially amazing is the close-up view just below the stage. Not only is it close, but it looks almost like a professional shot because other spectators are not visible on the screen. What’s more, just by shifting the viewpoint to the left or right just up close, the scene changes dramatically, from the edge of the stage to the middle of the stage, to the hanamichi, and the members in the middle of the middle also change one after another. There is even a huge screen image mixed there, so even just one camera is as versatile as a multi-camera. Because it is such a wonderful image, it has become a commentary like a turtle, but of course, depending on the song, a variety of different angles will come in.
What you can witness in these two types of superb footage is the full show of the last spurt, which has further improved towards the end of the tour. In order to explain the meaning, let’s organize the set here.
Fixed songs (10 songs)
・Tumbling Dice／You Can’t Always Get What You Want／Honky Tonk Women／Miss You／Midnight Rambler／Paint It Black／Start Me Up／Jumping Jack Flash／Sympathy For The Devil／(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
● Daily songs (9 songs)
・ Semi-fixed: Street Fighting Man / Out Of Time / Living In A Ghost Town / Gimme Shelter
・Other: Let’s Spend the Night Together/Out of Control (*)/Angie/You Got the Silver (★)/Connection (★)
* Note: “*” marks are songs that will appear for the first time on the tour. “★” mark is Keith Korner.
… and it looks like this. “Sixty” was a colorful tour that entertained us with a variety of daily songs, but it was also out of breath from the middle to the second half of the tour. There were no songs that appeared on the tour for the first time after the halfway point, and the number of songs set itself was sometimes shortened, probably because of the heat wave that hit Europe. The Stockholm performance changed completely when it was thought that the tour would end as it stabilized. It will be a full set of all 19 songs again, and even show off “Out Of Control”, which is the first appearance of the tour. For the final Berlin performance, he showed a passionate performance that regained momentum.
When it comes to the Stones’ latest tour, it feels like multi-camera footage has become commonplace, but it’s also hard to throw away the experience of being a one-camera. What’s more, DISC 1 of this work is as impressive as a multi-camera due to the masterful shooting… No, it surpasses it. With the addition of the multi-camera DISC 2, one of the best masterpieces in the series, this work is truly the definitive edition. A masterpiece that allows you to fully experience the final performance with two superb images with different personalities. Please enjoy it to your heart’s content and get rid of “Sixty” Loss.
★ The best audience shot of “Stockholm performance on July 31, 2022”. It is a 2-disc set with DISC 1 for the first appearance of the superb view one-camera version and DISC 2 for the multi-camera edited version. The one-camera version (DISC 1) makes extensive use of professional shot-level screen shots, and the multi-camera version (DISC 2) is one of the best masterpieces in the series. “Out Of Control”, which first appeared on the tour, is also a product that allows you to fully experience the final performance with two superb images with different personalities.
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